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Let's be fair, though. I'm addicted to Reddit, but relatively speaking, WoW did less than nothing for me.

Reddit teaches me a fuckton of useful things every day. I actually hone quite a few skills through Reddit. I have discovered new ways of thinking about the world through Reddit. I see perspectives of people and cultures from all over the world. I have had two job offers and an invite into a pet project through Reddit. I have an exhaustive catalog of my opinions, my learning, and many other aspects of who I am through Reddit.

Reddit is making a legacy of me. WoW made a legacy of whatever class I played, and within a month of quitting, everything I put into it was obsolete, by design.

They definitely just don't compare.

As a more direct argument, I love MMO's, but WoW is a special brand of parasite. Once it was a shining example of what games can be, but games have adapted, and for a long time WoW has been soulless, valuable only to those who suffer from a sunk-cost fallacy, and $15/mo. is a disgusting rip-off when the original servers that hosted thousands now sell for less than a mid-range graphics card.

The cost to support the game has almost everything to do with the equipment and infrastructure. They're running the same, very old system on more efficient hardware, which over time has made every user even more profitable. Would you pay $15/mo to play Everquest 1? Because SOE hasn't changed their model there, either. Their customers pay it, so they keep it.

It's a fair point to bring up the development costs, but they went profitable a very long time ago on initial development, and you can bet your bottom dollar they're more efficient at development now. Then considering their pathetically slow development cycle to release paid expansions which cost 4-months worth of subscription plus subscription to play, added to the dropping cost of their infrastructure, I think my point makes total sense. If you still disagree I need something more specific.

I know customer support is included in this as well. I can also promise you that customer support for a service like this is very inexpensive, and a relatively small, outsourced team, can handle a huge volume of customers, increasing and decreasing with a known model as features roll out.

Their costs have lowered substantially over time, but their price remains the same. The price is too high for such an outdated game when a new game with improvements on the concepts costs just as much. The only benefit is that you don't lose your progress in WoW, and that's the sunk-cost problem, not an argument of actual value.

You were talking about the servers. Servers represent a negligible amount of the cost of an in house developed product. I have ran some fairly large IT projects and hardware is cheap.

They had what off the shelf one U boxes with some local storage? A few years back when I was part of the purchasing end for that I would have budgeted 8k for that sort of machine fully loaded. 571 subs @ 1 mo pay for that.

I had a buddy from Ethiopia who told me about hippos. Holy shit, hippos are bad news like you wouldn't believe. They mix crap and urine, and SPRAY it all over creation. They sometime knock over boats JUST to kill the people in them. And they're FAST. You can't play dead, they'll trample you to goo, and you can't distract them. About the only thing you can do is hope you have enough lead that he gets tired of chasing you before he catches you.

Apparently they're way more likely to kill you than anything else in Africa, except maybe crocs. But they usually only attack for food. Hippos kill for fun.

National Geographic had a special on hippos that changed my outlook completely. My friend and I were watching it.

A male hippo shits and flings it's shit with it's tail to mark it's territory as the dominate male of the herd. Another younger male hippo had approached the existing older dominant male hippo to battle for dominance of the herd. They proceeded to knock the ever-living hell out of each other. The new younger male had beaten the older male.

The older dominant male had big gashes in his side from the younger hippo's tusks. He was laying on his side beaten and was just physically exhausted. Then the narrator said "The younger male hippo will chew the tail off the older hippo so that he can never mark territory again." My friend and I were like "wow that sucks!".

Then the narrator said "The younger male will now rape the older male as to triumph over him and show his dominance over him."

We then sat there quietly, watching a younger male hippo rape an older male hippo for like thirty seconds. For some reason it was the most uncomfortable silence I had ever been a part of.

The Narrator finally said "The beaten older male hippo will never be welcome in any herd again, He will more than likely die alone."

Hippos have been ruined for me since that day. Every time i see a hippo now, that scene from the national geographic documentary repeatedly plays in my head.

I was ignorant about Hippopotamuses. I thought they were very peaceful and friendly. Now I've instantly lost any interest in playing Hungry Hungry Hippos again. I would just, not feel the joy ever again. I'm done. No more.

You should watch the "Inside Nature's Giants" episode on the Hippo. It's strangely satisfying to see one from the inside.

And to realize they are basically a stomach with 4 legs.

ING didn't talk about the tail-chewing and raping part though, they were more interested in the stomach, in hippos not being able to float (let alone swim), in the gigantic tooth and in their healing factor going to 11.

You can't train a free contact elephant without dominating it. If they don't have an enormous amount of respect and fear of you, they don't comply with the requests asked of them. They are an incredibly smart, but stubborn animal. ESPECIALLY Africans. There is no chance that he used that bullhook in a loving way. The man might love his elephant, but the things he had to do to get that level of compliance out of that animal are absolutely disgusting.

As I said before, I train elephants. I know the different ways to do it.

Just speaking from a gymnast/traceur/personal trainer's point of view, fat is ok to eat when you're super active. In my bullet points I meant it as there aren't mcdonald's restaurants everywhere in africa, and the cultural food isn't normally that fatty.(source: I spent the month of december 2011 in ethiopia.) I know that fat isn't bad in the right amounts, but enough of it will make you fat. Ice cream is high in fat, and will make you fat. Refined carbs are worse, either way, he was being persnickety and I didn't feel like getting into it with him.

Actually, Africans have denser muscles on average and a propensity to be more muscular. This is one of the reasons Africans, on average, have a harder time swimming. They also have a much higher rate of sickle cell anemia. All of this changes with interracial children.

Can I just point out that Africa is a BIG place and it has a huge amount of genetic diversity. You may be referring specifically to African Americans, but they came mostly from West Africa. We have no idea where the man in the photo is from. It's almost like making sweeping statements about Russians because they share a continent with the Chinese.

People have been saying this for years, but it turns out that there's basically zero convincing science behind it. It's an odd disconnect in that many people (like yourself) are incredibly certain and basically assert it as a known and self-evident fact, and yet the scientific evidence just doesn't seem to be there. So what's really going on? I don't have any answers and believe me, it's a subject that's already been beaten to death on Reddit many times over the years.

Personally I don't understand what evidence people need. Black people are much bigger faster and more athletic. That's why the south has the best football teams. It's not a secret. You might point out the few white people who compare... But the numbers are nowhere near close. It's not an accident that that's the case.

It makes me sad to see this as part of the reddit community. So many people upvoting this without knowing how that elephant is basically in submission there through physical harm. This community, reddit as a whole, has descended into the masses of Facebook with a few quality posters. Sad.